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Discipline:Literature – fiction
Rosa Shand
Discipline:Literature – fiction
Region:Spartanburg, SC
MacDowell Fellowships:1995, 2000, 2002
During her three MacDowell Fellowships, Rosa Shand has worked on her novel Powleys, a novella to go with a collection of Southern stories to be published by Soho, and other projects.
Her novel The Gravity of Sunlight (2000) won the Jesse James Award for Best Fiction and the Stephen Turner Award for Best First Fiction as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has published over thirty stories in such journals as The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Chelsea.
Studios
Schelling
Rosa Shand worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the
organization was established and the first artists arrived for
residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed
in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral
leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward
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